Editor's Note :

We are expecting one or more decisions in argued cases tomorrow at 10 a.m. We will be live-blogging the opinion(s) as they are released. However, there is no live blog of tomorrow’s oral argument in King v. Burwell. We will have coverage of that argument as soon as possible after it is finished; the transcript should be available tomorrow afternoon, and the audio will be available on Friday. Wednesday's live blog will be available here.

Petition of the day

Applebee’s International Inc. v. Fast

Note: Goldstein and Russell P.C. represents the respondents in this case.Docket: 11-425Issue(s): (1) Whether an employer loses the benefit of the “tip credit” provided by the Fair Labor Standards Act toward its minimum-wage obligations for employees who regularly receive tips if a tipped employee spends more than twenty percent of his time performing duties that are related to his occupation but are not by themselves directed toward producing tips; and (2) whether the deference that the Eighth Circuit paid to the Department of Labor’s informal interpretation of its regulation conflicts with the decisions of this Court and other courts of appeals and impermissibly allowed the agency to issue de facto a new regulation under the guise of interpreting an earlier one.

Merits Case Pages and Archives

On Monday the Court issued orders from its February 27 Conference. Two new cases were granted. On Tuesday the Court announced its decision in Direct Marketing v. Brohl. This is the second week of the February sitting.

“I think always the humor was a means to an end. And the end is, to help folks who don’t live in this world understand why it matters.” Dahlia Lithwick covers the Supreme Court and writes about law more broadly for Slate.com. In this six-part interview, Ms. Lithwick discusses law school, practicing law, and how […]